Martyrs
Subtitle: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780060611200
First sentence: Two months before Aleksandr Menn was felled by an ax, he was asked in a radio interview broadcast across Russia, "Does one need to be a Christian, and if one does, then why?"
Description: Twenty original essays by distinguished contemporary writers trace an indelible portrait of the martyrs of our century, documenting a struggle that has played out across the boundaries of nations and between the realm of culture and the province of the sacred. The stories of these remarkable individuals who chose faith at the cost of life demonstrate that what remains, after the drama of their agonizing deaths, is a legacy of inspiring faith.